{"id":10651,"date":"2016-03-29T15:51:43","date_gmt":"2016-03-29T19:51:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/carleton.ca\/english\/?post_type=cu_people&#038;p=10651"},"modified":"2025-08-20T12:46:38","modified_gmt":"2025-08-20T16:46:38","slug":"michael-vachon","status":"publish","type":"cu_people","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/english\/people\/michael-vachon\/","title":{"rendered":"Michael Vachon"},"content":{"rendered":"<header class=\"mb-6 cu-pageheader cu-component-updated md:mb-12\">\n    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 pb-5 after:w-10 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px\">\n                    \n             \n                \n            <\/h1>\n\n    \n    <\/header>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>BA Honours English &#8217;05<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After graduating in 2005,&nbsp;Mike&nbsp;worked at a number of jobs but he felt nothing fit as a long-term career. Finally, he&nbsp;joined the <strong>Canadian Armed Forces<\/strong> in August 2009 as an Infantry Officer and soon after left for basic training at the Canadian Forces Leadership and Recruit School in St-Jean-sur-Richelieu, QC. He&nbsp;then went on to complete his&nbsp;training over the next 18 months or so at the Infantry School at CFB Gagetown near Fredericton, NB. Upon completion of training he&nbsp;was promoted to Lieutenant and posted to the 3<sup>rd<\/sup> Battalion of the Royal 22e Regiment (R22eR) at CFB Valcartier just north of Quebec, QC as a platoon commander in C Company.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mike held the position for the better part of a year before beginning work-up training, being promoted to Captain and being deployed to Kabul, Afghanistan. He&nbsp;spent eight months in Afghanistan; two as a mentor at the Kabul Military Training Centre and six as a Duty Officer in the Tactical Operations Centre (TOC) at Camp Phoenix. Upon his&nbsp;return following the mission, Mike&nbsp;was employed as C Company Battle Captain for about a year, he is currently a Plans Officer in&nbsp;Goose Bay.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mike is&nbsp;married with three small children (5, 3, 1) and is currently completing a Master of Public Administration from the Royal Military College. His&nbsp;military career was made possible by his&nbsp;degree from Carleton University as his entry plan to the CAF as an officer required that he&nbsp;have a Bachelor\u2019s degree. He has&nbsp;had amazing and sometimes difficult experiences and faced a variety of challenges that he had&nbsp;never expected to see in the course of a career.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mike&nbsp;would recommend a military career to any Carleton graduate who possesses personal fortitude, good judgement, a desire to serve Canada and a sense of adventure.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10654,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"cu_people_first_name":"Michael","cu_people_last_name":"Vachon","cu_people_initials":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"cu_people_type":[26],"cu_people_expertise":[],"class_list":["post-10651","cu_people","type-cu_people","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","cu_people_type-alumni"],"acf":{"cu_people_job_title":"5 Wing Plans Officer \u2013 Infantry Officer","cu_people_degree":"B.A. \u201905","cu_building":false,"cu_people_office_num":"","cu_people_pronoun":"none","cu_people_designation":"","cu_people_email":"","cu_people_phone":"","cu_people_phone_ext":"","cu_people_linkedin":"","cu_people_bluesky":"","cu_people_twitter":"","cu_people_instagram":"","cu_people_facebook":"","cu_people_website":"http:\/\/www.forces.ca\/","cu_people_orcid":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people\/10651","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/cu_people"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people\/10651\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17718,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people\/10651\/revisions\/17718"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10654"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"cu_people_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people_type?post=10651"},{"taxonomy":"cu_people_expertise","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people_expertise?post=10651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}